FRIDAY!!!
This has been an excellent day. Work went smoothly. More ColdFusion work and reading. Towards the end of the day, I started looking at the code that I had written for the interface for a database to catalog my comic book collection. About 2/3 of it was working, but the final step was being… difficult. I asked Adrian to take a look at it and see if he could spot the problem. There wasn’t a “problem” as much as there was a couple of minor syntax errors. About 00:30 later… I HAD FIXED IT!

IT WORKS!!! Sure, there’s some minor tweaking that I can do to make it more aesthetically pleasing, but IT WORKS!!!

After work, Jess and I headed to meet Joe, Ty and Courtney (Joe & Ty’s 2½ year old bundle of energy). I last saw Ty and Courtney in September, I think; they had a layover here; Joe I haven’t seen in… about a year-and-a-half. It was great to see them. We had dinner and hung out all night. And, with the exception of the wee one, it was just like old times. As the Rush song Anagram (for Mongo) says: “Lonely things like nights, I find, end finer with a friend.” It was a great ending to the day.

Song of the Day
Y.M.C.A. by The Village People. It’s kind of the unofficial theme song of our group.

Stray Toasters

  • I found this story on USAToday’s site this morning. Firing squad. Here in Utah. Who would have expected that? It’s definitely out-of-the-ordinary. I would have expected lethal injection or electrocution or…. the Spanish Inquisition. Noooo one expects the Spanish Inquisition!
  • Captain Kangas-roo.
  • sent me this link. It concerns the Brother of The Shrub and a looming case in Florida: Whether a severely mentally retarded woman – a rape victim – should be allowed (“ALLOWED?!?”) to have an abortion.

    ::: braincramp :::

    The woman in question is at serious risk of not surviving the delivery. Most people agree that on those grounds alone, termination of the pregnancy should be a top option. According to the article:

    Despite the fact that the woman is severely disabled, has been raped, and might die if allowed to give birth, Bush felt that the appointment of a guardian for her was not appropriate. Instead, he moved to stop the appointment of the woman’s guardian until a second guardian could first be appointed — specifically, a guardian for the fetus.

    And a Florida judge has refused to rule on the case “on technical legal grounds.” If ever I saw something as an indicator that humanity is getting sucked into the whirlpool, this is it.

  • On a significantly lighter note, Robert sent me this link – “Four things that could have improved The Matrix: Reloaded.” It’s pretty funny.
  • The Boondocks. HAH!
  • I caught glimpses of a commercial for what I think is a new Jewel CD. I say “I think” because the song that they played was very un-Jewel. In fact, Jess even asked,”So who is she now… ‘Jewel Aguilera?’ ”
  • Super Mario Wally World trips two nights in a row.
  • Hindsight is often 20-20. “Should have. Could have. Would have.” It seems that the chairman of the review panel studying the space shuttle Columbia accident has said: “If NASA had known immediately that the Columbia was damaged on liftoff, it might have sent the shuttle Atlantis on a rescue mission.” That would have been good. Unfortunately, that was not the case. I find that statement to be superfluous, unless it came as part of the development for a contingency plan for future shuttle (or its successors) missions.
  • My friend Heather emailed these to me. I found them to be rather amusing.

Quote of the Day
This was related to me by Jess from a conversation that she had with Dee earlier today:

Dee: So, Joe’s coming into town.
Jess: Yes.
Dee: I like Joe; Joe’s cool. Joe reminds me of me…
::: thoughtful pause :::
Rob likes annoying white men.

And with that, good night and good morrow.

Namaste.